Alessandro Algardi

1595–1654 · Papal States · Baroque

Alessandro Algardi (31 July 1595 – 10 June 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome. Wikipedia

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“Statue of Hercules restored as killing the Hydra of Lerna” — Capitoline Museums
“Jupiter holding Lightning” — Louvre
“Portrait of Pope Innocent X Pamphili”, 1647 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Monument to Odoardo Santarelli”
“Statue of Innocent X”, 1640s
“Tomb of Pope Leo XI”, 1640s
“Altar of Saint Leo the Great in Saint Peter's Basilica”, 1653
“Bust of Camillo Pamphili”, 1647 — Hermitage Museum
“Saint Matthew”, 1640 — National Gallery of Art
“Baptism of Christ”, 1645 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Rest on the Flight into Egypt”, 1635 — National Gallery of Art
“A Flagellator of Christ”, 1630s — National Gallery of Art
“Christ at the Column” — National Gallery of Art
“Kneeling Angel” — Nationalmuseum
“Bust of Bishop Ulpiano Volpi”, 1640s — Museo Poldi Pezzoli
“Bust of Maurizio Frangipane” — Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
“Bust of Olimpia Maidalchini” — Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj
“Venus Seated in Her Sea Chariot Suckling Cupid”
“Landscape with the Holy Family (Rest on the Flight into Egypt)”
“Infant Christ and St. John the Baptist”, 1620s — National Museum in Warsaw

Alessandro Algardi

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